Cleopatra's daughter

Cleopatra Selene has found a safe harbor. No longer the pitiful orphaned daughter of the despised Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, the twenty-year- old is now the most powerful queen in the empire, ruling over the kingdom of Mauretania--an exotic land of enchanting possibility where she intends to revive her dynasty. With her husband, King Juba II and the magic of Isis that is her birthright, Selene brings prosperity and peace to a kingdom thirsty for both. But when Augustus Caesar jealously demands that Selene's children be given over to him to be fostered in Rome, she's drawn back into the web of imperial plots and intrigues that she vowed to leave behind. Determined and resourceful, Selene must shield her loved ones from the emperor's wrath, all while vying with ruthless rivals like King Herod.

Princess Selene, Cleopatra's daughter, survived a perilous childhood as a Roman captive after her mother's death. Pledging her loyalty to Augustus Caesar, she is forced to marry a man of the Emperor's choosing. The magic of Isis makes her indispensible to the emperor and against a backdrop of imperial politics and religious persecution she makes her way to the very precipice of power.

With her parents both dead, Princess Selene of Egypt, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, is left at the mercy of her Roman captors after the fall of Alexandria.